Looking Back

Fifty years ago today, October 3, 1967

Speech Writer Fired

Gov. Lester Maddox’s office denied a charge the governor’s staff was banned from attending a dinner in Georgia where Democrat Robert Kennedy spoke.

Sharon Brown, a speech writer for Gov. Maddox fired Monday, said Maddox warned all of his office employees that going to a dress affair for Georgia businessmen where Kennedy appeared would be risking dismissal.

“I guess we can only go to hear George Wallace,” commented Miss Brown.

Vietnam

Battle reports produced evidence Monday the North Vietnamese may have slipped fresh troops with modern weapons into South Vietnam’s central highlands during the month-long Communist artillery siege of the U.S. Marine outpost at Con Thien.

Ex-Nazi Arrested

The Netherlands announced Monday night at Yugoslav authorities have arrested Erich Rajakovich, the Austrian said to have been Adolf Eichmann’s right-hand man. Rajakovich is wanted in The Hague on charges of mass murder in the World War II slaughter of Dutch Jews by the Nazis.

This story was originally published October 2, 2017 at 3:31 PM with the headline "Looking Back."